You begin by equating the two sides in Turkey, and then work backwards to say that Iran 1979 is the precedent for determining our position on this sort of thing – except that that assumes what needs to be demonstrated, i.e., that we are comparing apples with apples and not oranges.”, “I suspect that it might be easier to make a case for Khomeini’s movement in January 1979 representing democratic rights than Erdogan’s in July 2016. The question of the party & democratic centralism Following the recent events that led to splits, resignations, expulsions and suspensions (including the Iranian section) in the International Marxist Tendency, a reassessment of the concept of 'democratic centralism' inside a revolutionary party has become necessary. The history of funding of the Bolshevik revolution consists largely of white spots. James Robertson’s missing obituary (14 July 2019), Die bevorstehende Klimakatastrophe (30. Both sides expected that future developments would vindicate their analysis. This unprecedented development threatened the stability of the group, particularly as the polarization saw members of the IBT’s core founding groups take opposite sides. You have retained control of a considerable sum of IBT money in North America and have made no attempt to return this to us. Found inside – Page 473In the already mentioned pamphlet Lenin writes that “ this enemy ( opportunism ) is still the chief enemy , on an international scale . This enemy received , and still receives , maximum attention from Bolshevism . ” The left tendency ... It confirms my initial response to the IBT statement that it was the split group, now going public calling themselves the Bolshevik Tendency, that I politically align myself with. In a childish parody of Trotskyism, you have adopted a name virtually identical to ours, and you are selling hard copies of IBT literature that do not belong to you (including, with a nice sense of irony, a pamphlet originally published by the PRG before the 1990 fusion). Head in the Sand Rationalizations & Attempted Blackmail The International Bolshevik Tendency "Explains" Its Demise. (26 March 2019), Spenser Rapone and the Democratic Socialists of America (25 January 2019). It was this line that has been argued in our press in recent years (see “Middle East Chaos” and “Ukraine, Russia & the Struggle for Eurasia”). Riley sent an annotated response to Logan’s “Twenty points” on 26 October 2013. This is the significance of the Iranian example, although of course there are important differences. The International Socialist Tendency that once proudly proclaimed itself as different from various toy-Bolshevik 'internationals', which claimed that it was not an international, but a tendency composed of autonomous groups united around the politics of international socialism, has become a mere shadow of its former self. We therefore have concluded that it is necessary to undo the 1990 fusion with the former PRG comrades and resume independent existence as the Bolshevik Tendency. This Marxist polemic reviews the political and theoretical disputes inside the Fourth International, the international Marxist movement founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938, and gives a detailed objective assessment of the political contribution ... [6:25:37 PM] Tom R.: Please send me the best 4-5 articles or book titles on Russian banks, [6:25:45 PM] Tom R.: I do not claim to be an expert. Found inside – Page 82... I The Partido de Trabajadores por el Socialismo from Argentina ; The Internationalist Group / League for the Fourth International , a split from the Spartacist League ; I The International Bolshevik Tendency ( IBT ) , another split ... The “programmatic legacy of the RT/iSt” is based on unity of anti-Pabloite forces and against light-minded splits over secondary questions. Like the Bolshevik Tendency, GIVI was founded by former cadres of the international Spartacist tendency. Februar 2021), Down With Corporate Censorship: Reinstate SEP/SWP (UK) Facebook Sites Immediately! After the 2011 conference the Russia discussion was resumed within the IBT leadership. Riley's second document, "From Trotskyism to Neo-Pabloism," posted on the website of the International Bolshevik Tendency (which had been initiated by a 1990 fusion between the BT and the New Zealand-based Permanent Revolution Group) dissected the multiple factual errors and political distortions presented in the Hydra document's . Its leading figure was J.V. Found inside – Page 107The Primacy of Political Divisions In fact, splits within the trade union movement have remained deeper and more long-lasting because they are deeply rooted in political divisions which often have an international dimension. They attempted to recruit both groups to their tendency, but only succeeded with the latter. Russian archives have long been in the hands of Soviet rulers who didn't want to shed too much light on the methods and tactics of international Communist movement. Brecht mit der Partei die Linke! Rather than stay and fight (as we did for many years as loyal partisans of Leninist democratic centralism), the comrades decided to walk. In 1914, on behalf of the RSDLP Central Committee, which following the 1912 split of the Bolsheviks with the majority of the Mensheviks—the "liquidationists"—consisted only of Bolsheviks, Lenin sent a report to the International Bureau of the Second International on the situation within the Russian Social Democratic movement. We maintained discipline over many years in order to avoid this split, and we do not want it now. It was another beautiful day for a demonstration- the sun was shining and was mercifully accompanied by a cool soothing breeze. Copied from . Political clarity is an essential attribute for a small revolutionary propaganda group if it is to play a positive role in the struggle to forge a viable Leninist leadership rooted in the working class. An American Bolshevik Party. The next major contribution, “Twenty points on the imperialism discussion,” was circulated by Logan on 18 September 2013. In your resignation letter you state: “The only substantial asset the IBT has ever possessed is our political continuity with the programmatic legacy of the RT/iSt.” Your behavior since you left the IBT seems calculated to sabotage that legacy. CLI — International Leninist Current, Voce Operaia (it) tendency.. COFI —Communist Organization for the Fourth International I expressed surprise and asked: ‘Please send me the best 4-5 articles or book titles on Russian banks.’ I look forward to going through this material when you get a chance to forward it.”, “As much as reading five books on the history of Russian banking would be good for my soul, it wouldn’t be all that helpful in understanding the development of the Russian financial bourgeoisie (ie the oligarchs). A substantial minority of the organization argued that Russia had developed into an imperialist power over a decade ago. Recently the IBT split into the Bolshevik Tendency (BT) (Nimps) (Riley Faction) on one side and International Bolshevik Tendency (Imps) (Logan Faction) on the other (as well as a third faction). Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. By the 1985 conference of the iSt an "external tendency" had split from the iSt, that would go on to form the International Bolshevik Tendency. This amounts to 10.6% of crude oil exported from the Russian Federation by volume. In an attempt to lower the factional temperature and perhaps make some progress toward a common understanding, it was agreed to suspend the discussion in the organization as a whole and continue it solely within the leadership. You had a majority on this question and controlled the position of the IBT, which was defended in public by all members. The IBT's intervention did have an advantage of some political consistency (particularly over rivals . 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Marxists defend these regimes against aggression by imperialists or their proxies, but we do not take sides in intra-bourgeois squabbles when both sides are qualitatively similar. Two groupings within the International (the official body of world Trotskyism) walked out or boycotted the meeting — the Bolshevik Faction (the majority tendency in Latin America) and the large Leninist Trotskyist Tendency (of France). 1917and Trotskyist Bulletin [1] 1917. and. ( Log Out /  I. We go forward. They concluded that by 2016 this transformation was qualitatively complete. I then decided I agreed more with the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) than the Internationalist Group (IG). The International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party was formed in 1983, as a result of a joint initiative by the Internationalist Communist Party (PCInt) in . We uphold the political contributions of the RT/iSt in its revolutionary period as well as the entire published record of the IBT to date. Dorn/Hannah ignored the comparison between Erdogan and Pilsudski, as well as the evidence that there had been considerably more democratic space for the workers’ movement in Iran in 1979 than in Turkey in 2016. The ISL is the British affiliate of the International Workers League (FI) better known by its Spanish language initials the LIT (CI)- the international tendency associated with the Argentinian Trotskyist Nahuel Moreno.. It is hardly surprising that the renegade Banda centers his denunciation of the International Committee on the document that summoned Trotskyists all over . (The IBT have already started arguing that . Found inside – Page 190As we then estimated the situation , we did not need to do more than utilize the International Internal Discussion Bulletin . ... A secret tendency or faction is an unmitigated evil in a Bolshevik organization . The following letter was sent to our former members on 2 January 2019, three months after their resignations. 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A few days later (8 August 2016) Decker replied: “As we’ve indicated several times, we don’t accept the analogy of Iran 1979, since in that case the existing government (the Shah) was already a dictatorship, and it was a question of an equally undemocratic movement (the mullahs) attempting to replace it. As we noted at the conference, while we completely disagreed with his conclusion, Mikl was “quite right to see the key issue posed in Iran in 1979 as essentially the same as in Turkey in 2016.”. 1; All fell for the scam to one extent or another, and there are probably some others who have yet to own up to being conned. After the1903 split between the two main factions, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, Harding makes clear that it was Lenin's Bolsheviks who upheld the idea of working-class hegemony in the democratic revolution, and his Menshevik opponents who departed from it. Toward the end of the discussion there was a lively exchange over whether Russia’s energy sector was generating “superprofits,” which Lenin considered to be a characteristic feature of imperialism. Stalin, an old Bolshevik, a capable organizer and a man of unbounded ambition and iron will. I have argued that that kind of abstentionism is wrong since 2013. — Found inside – Page 936government set up by the Bolsheviks, but a few months after the October Revolution were organizing anti-Bolshevik uprisings. MAXIMALISTS—An extremist tendency which split off from the Social Revo- lutionaries in the Revolution of 1905. Meanwhile, a second area of disagreement arose – a tactical question from the perspective of those who remain in the IBT, but which Riley viewed as a historic betrayal, tantamount to a rejection of Trotskyism. International Socialist League (Hunter) including Bolshevik Tendency in WRP and International Workers League-FI (Morenoites) International Communist Party / Socialist Equality Party (Hyland / North) Workers Revolutionary Party (Newsline) And its splits: Workers International League (Price) became Workers Action and split with a minority tendency. While identifying the International Spartacists Tendency, from the 1960s until the late . —Ariel Cohen, Politicized Oil Trade: Russia and Its Neighbors, p5. Some leading comrades accepted this with reservations, but no motion was passed, nor was the position formally documented. 2 – Der August-Putsch – das Ende der Sowjetunion, Eko-Sosyalizm & “Yeşil Yeni Mutabakat” Hayalleri. This relationship is uncharacteristic, to say the least, of those between imperialist powers and neocolonies: “Russian oil companies’ export earnings have grown nearly six fold in the last 10 years, but over 90% of revenue is generated by deliveries to non-CIS countries. 4 March, 2010. Faced with the possibility of a debilitating split both sides agreed to the very irregular procedure of putting the issue on the agenda for discussion without bringing it to a vote. The separate movements in the International — which would later develop into social democracy, communism, and anarchism — found their greatest advocates in Mikhail Bakunin and Karl Marx. Found insideThe volume presents the argument that during the age of wars from 1914 to 1945, the establishment of the Soviet state in Russia and the birth of the communist movement had an enormous impact because of their promise of world revolution and ... Brandon Gray's Resignation Letter from the International Bolshevik Tendency. We countered that a bloc with the Turkish and Egyptian governments against an attempted army takeover (i.e., temporarily aiming the guns in the same direction against the military dictators) had its historical analogue in the Kornilov Affair of August 1917, not in the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Today is the anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Found inside – Page 606A third tendency , Workers Politics ( PO ) , 2 chose to present itself as a caricature of a mass working - class ... the PST split from the international as part of the Bolshevik Faction led by long - time PST leader Nahuel Moreno . There is a rather profound “methodological” divergence which seems very unlikely to change in the foreseeable future. You say you uphold “the entire published record of the IBT to date” – a body of work created over decades in collaboration between comrades from the BT, PRG, GIVI and those who were recruited after the 1990 fusions. Bill Logan proposed that the Georgian conflict marked Russia’s emergence as an imperialist power in its own right. It was also because leading members on both sides recognized that if not handled properly this issue could produce a destructive split and result in two far less viable groupings. Found inside – Page 217With George Clark led supporters in SWP of Pablo tendency . Expelled in 1953. ... DOWSON , Ross -Leader of Canadian section of Fourth International who opposed Pablo in 1953 but fully supported SWP's return to Pabloism in 1961. Dennis Tourish, Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at the University of Sussex, has written at length about cults. The dispute centered on the approach revolutionaries should take toward the attempted military coup against Erdogan in Turkey in July 2016 and the successful coup by the army against Morsi in Egypt in 2013. In both cases the coup failed because a majority of the officer corps withheld support. Found insideIt is now more than fifty years since the publication of the first edition of this work. It was written as a reply to Monty Johnstone, who was a leading theoretician of the Communist Party of Great Britain. And it is not possible to have a simple formula that will give us the right answer automatically.”. (See also “Imperialists Tear Ukraine Apart.”). In an attempt to break the impasse, or at least reset the terms of the debate, both sides agreed to present a short compilation of their materials to Murray Smith, who had a long history of loyalty to the historic RT/iSt program, as well as expertise in Marxist economic analysis. One hundred years ago, in July/August 1903, the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party held its Second Congress - not in Russia, since the scale of repression under the Czarist regime would have made this virtually impossible - but in Belgium and in . In introducing his document he observed: “In the very weak state the IBT now finds itself in, our failure to either resolve the argument about Russian imperialism or to set it aside for the time being threatens to be a critical blow to the organisation. You indicated that your reading on the subject had led you to different conclusions than mine had. Part 1 - 11/19/15 . Comradely regards, David Watts International Bolshevik Tendency Introducing In Defence of Trotskyism T he International Trotskyist Current has begun this series of theoretical and As they fight, let us focus solely on how to best take advantage for our own interests. Three decades since its first public statement [FROM NEW YORK TO SRI LANKA: IT IS DESPERATELY NECESSARY TO FIGHT! Break With The Robertson-Foster-Nelson Misleadership! The then minority was eventually able to persuade Riley and his co-thinkers that they were mistaken in their characterization, resulting in the publication of an article on the contradictions inherent in imperialist Tsarist Russia (see “Imperialism, Tsarist Russia & WWI”). A few months later Riley and Logan held a series of intense on-line discussions with Mikl in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade him that the iSt had been right about Khomeini. 9 (Convention Bulletin . The Impending Climate CATASTROPHE & How to Combat It, Statement of the Bolshevik Tendency on their split from the IBT, Ukraine, Russia & the Struggle for Eurasia, Serious capitalist commentator on climate change, A discussion with Gerry D. of Socialist Fight, Climate scientists send new warning of hastening ecological collapse, Ted Tynan – Cork Workers Party councillor. The average price per barrel of crude was $20.04 less for countries of the former Soviet Union than the rest of the world. In: 1917 / Journal of the International Bolshevik Tendency. During the next six months an intensive discussion took place, much of which centered on questions of capital flows and patterns of Russian foreign investment. $0.99. Hello Select your address Books Hello, Sign in. Found inside – Page 569... according to Krupskaya , he “ thought that the time was ripe for a split on an international scale , that it was ... 4 Lenin , Sochineniya , xx , 89 ; Lenin added in a footnote a definition of the “ Centre ” as “ a tendency which ... Found inside – Page 4There followed a lengthy debate over what was to be the attitude of the PSOE and the UGT to the Russian revolution and to the Third International. The pro-bolshevik tendency was defeated in a series of party congresses between 1919 and ... Smith commented on “the impressively civil and comradely tone of the debate,” which is not usually how hotly contested issues are discussed in far-left organizations. There was a third tendency, the "center", representing the apparatchniks, the bureaucracy. (For a further outline of our position see “Turkey and the Tactic of the Military Bloc.”). I mentioned that I had spent some time looking into Russian banking and had included what I had found regarding Russia’s status in the global finance capital community in my contribution last summer (roughly that it is in a comparable position to Brazil, i.e., not in the ‘first division’ on a global scale.). This statement was released earlier this week ( published on SCRIBD) in response to the statement of the IBT about the split. On 11 November 2008 Smith sent a response with some useful observations that helped shape subsequent discussions. The current National Bolshevik Party (NBP) was founded in 1992 as the National Bolshevik Front, an amalgamation of six minor groups. Also this blog is POV and I make no claim to be impartial. The first involved the nature of Tsarist imperialism circa World War I. Found inside... reflecting a pro-Bolshevik tendency “down under” that long disfigured that organization, so spendidly built and so long associated with the S.U.P. The R.I.L.U. also counted in a “unitary” French sailors' faction, which had split ... Oktober 2019), ‘Democracy’ Provocateurs & Hong Kong’s Capitalist Dystopia (17 September 2019), Sklerotische Spartacisten entwirren sich (ursprünglich veröffentlicht am 28. On the Future International. A demonstration in Palace Square, Moscow, during the Russian Revolution, May 1, 1917. The Imps made no response to this document. On 28 June 2017 Riley sent Mikl a document entitled “On Khomeini & Counterrevolution” which defended the iSt position and provided evidence that a) the Khomeinites had emerged as the leadership of the anti-Shah movement by October 1978 (several months before the collapse of the old regime); and b) that during the next few years Khomeini’s regime systematically eliminated any possible opposition and consolidated a theocratic dictatorship. In the contemporary era the ideology of proletarian liberation has developed in three stages, each of which has qualitatively advanced all the three components of Marxist thought (political economy . In March 28, 1946, C.L.R. Like many cult experts, he was in one - he worked as a full-timer for the Militant Tendency in Northern Ireland in the 1980s. 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See Communist InterBlick - Jenkins group , 63-64 national Bolshevik , 10 , 12 , 30 , 52 , 74 , 116 Communist International , 2-5 ... We are well aware that our activities will initially be barely noticed beyond a very small circle, but we are convinced that the political heritage we represent will be an essential ingredient in the future resurgence of a genuinely Trotskyist international workers party. To make change today, we need to take democratic socialism seriously as a theory and practice. There were also significant differences over Russia’s intervention in Syria. Although considerably more backward than the established major imperialist powers, Russia plays an increasing role in inter-imperialist competition, particularly demonstrated in recent conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. by Sam Trachtenberg . (3. After more than a year of serious and intense discussion it is abundantly clear that, a) there is no prospect of reaching agreement with Mikl et al, and that b) continuing these discussions can only be a sterile and pointless exercise. (10. Bolshevik Tendency session at #LEFTFORUM2019, Liberaler Moralismus oder Klasssenkampf? All but one of the former members of the New Zealand Permanent Revolution Group (PRG) supported Logan’s position, while everyone from the External Tendency/Bolshevik Tendency (ET/BT) opposed it. While we believe the Riley group are sincere in their view that capitalist Russia is a “great power” without being an imperialist country, there were at times hints that their refusal to recognize reality was rooted in a fear of being seen as insufficiently opposed to the world’s predominant imperialist power, the United States, and its allies. The Russian Revolution remains a landmark event in history. The Imps withheld comment until, in her final summary at the conference just before the vote was taken, Dorn, “after prompting, responded that the reason there had been no response to the document was because she and her co-thinkers agreed with ‘most’ of it. The discussion was reopened when Riley submitted a 2 June 2013 document entitled “Is Russia Imperialist?” which, among other things, discussed several issues raised in an earlier (6 April 2011) document by Decker. 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Submitted by International Review on 12 January, 2004 - 18:00. Building on natural resources in oil and gas and what remained of the economic base inherited from the Soviet Union, Russia had come to project its economic might abroad to extract value from less powerful countries, using its military weight to secure spheres of influence for future enrichment. 41: International Bolshevik Tendency: 9781079888065: Books - Amazon.ca. The following is a slightly edited version of a document circulated to close contacts and supporters to explain our decision to dissolve the 1991 fusion with the New Zealand Permanent Revolution Group (PRG) and resume our separate existence as the Bolshevik Tendency. In both the Turkey and Russia debates, the method of argumentation employed by the Riley faction conformed to a familiar pattern: attempt to overwhelm your opponents with a mass of empirical data, much of which is uncontroversial and capable of being fully assimilated into the perspective of your opponent, and then accuse your opponent of being “unserious,” “unable to respond” or even “bureaucratic”(!) While the Imps repeatedly asserted that Russia conformed to Lenin’s model of “finance capitalism,” they never seriously addressed the evidence presented in “Is Russia Imperialist?” that suggested that the status of Russian banks is closer to those of “developing” Brazil than “developed” (i.e., imperialist) countries like the U.S., Britain or Canada. A quick look at the IBT website confirms the split, but leaves some questions unanswered: Will there now be a Bolshevik Tendency (Toronto and German) and an International Bolshevik Tendency (New Zealand and others) both claiming to be the real IBT/BT while either ignoring or sniping about the other? This is not the Leninist way of conducting politics. When the Egyptian military, with considerable popular support from the urban population, deposed Mohamed Morsi’s elected Muslim Brotherhood government in 2013 the IBT leadership agreed (with the notable exceptions of comrades Mikl and Decker) to a position of defeatism on both sides. James, writing under the name J.R. Johnson, published this document in the Bulletin of the Workers Party Volume I. 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